Bost Honourable THE MARQUIS CAMDEN. H MY LORD MARQUIS, AVING by long labour and patience endea Ivoured to illustrate the Monuments in the Churches and Churchyards of my native parish, I requested permission to dedicate the result of my labours to your lordship, and I humbly and gratefully acknowledge that permission being granted. I have the honour to be, Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble servant, FREDERICK TEAGUE CANSICK. Kentish Town, December, 1869. HE nature and design of a book of this kind is so obvious that it does not need an introduction, and not being willing to subject myself to comments upon the vanity of authorship, or compilation, I offer this, my first essay, to an indulgent public. Having seen, with deep regret, the wholesale sacrifice to the god of mammon of those grounds which have been consecrated by Bishops as the resting-places of all that remained of our mortal bodies, I have endeavoured, by the employment of my spare hours, to save from the wholesale destruction which is now going on, some of the inscriptions of the noted families buried in my native parish. I am fully aware of the shortcomings of this volume, but have spared no labour to make it as perfect as possible; and although some errors may have crept in, I offer it as a labour of love of many years. I have to express my sincere thanks to the Rev. W. Arrowsmith, M.A., Vicar of Old St. Pancras, for his kindness in affording me unlimited access to the church and churchyard of Old S. Pancras, for the preservation of which he has fought, with time and money, against those who would have sold it to a railway company. I am also indebted to the works of the Rev. S. Lysons, in assisting me to know whose stones to search for. My thanks are also due to Mr. W. Griggs, of the India Museum Depôt, for the photo-lithographs by his patent process. My obligations are also due to the kind friends who have so willingly subscribed, and thus enabled me to present this, my first volume of the Epitaphs of Middlesex, to the public. F. T. C. THE in the Old S. Pancras Road, running from Battle Bridge, or King's Cross, in front of the Great Northern Railway, to Kentish Town, through what was known as the King's Road, and coming out at the Castle Tavern, which stood at the corner of Water Lane. It is supposed to have been erected in the twelfth century. In the records belonging to the Dean and Chapter of S. Paul's, there is noticed a visitation made to this church in the year 1251, wherein is stated "that it had a little belfry, a good stone font for baptisms, and a small marble stone to carry the Pax." Weever, in his "Funeral Monuments," speaks of a wondrous ancient monument in this church, by tradition said to belong to the family of Robert Eve and Laurentia, his sister, daughter of Francis, son of Thomas Eve, clerk of the crown. The family of Eve were of great antiquity in this parish. In the |